City Council continues to struggle to find a solution to revenue losses
MEDICINE HAT – A City Council debate over how to fill a revenue shortfall lasted an hour and ended with the matter being tabled to a later date.
The normally agreeable councillors were torn on how to back fill a $16 million dollar hole in the budget, that’s traditionally been filled by money generated from oil and gas.
City staff, for the third time, proposed the introduction of a new utility fee. The Municipal Consent and Access Fee (MCAF). The fee would be applied to both the gas and electric utilities.